Photo and biographical article about William Kenefick, president and founder of the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway and other railroads and zinc smelting companies, a native of Ireland and husband of...

Photo and biographical article about Philip Kealy, former "president of the Kansas City Railways Company" until becoming a military officer sent to war in 1915. Description of his life and career, born...

Photo and biographical article about James Holden, "the vice-president of the Kansas City Southern" Railways Company. He was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1861 and entered the railroad industry at a young...

Photo and biographical article about Adelbert Nichols, "of the A. P. Nichols Investment Company," born in Illinois in 1869 and coming to Kansas City as a child, with residence at 3787 Pennsylvania Street....

Photo and bio of John Barber White, or John White, a lumber magnate born in New York in 1847 and moving to Missouri in 1879 before coming to Kansas City as a forestry conservationist and member of the...

Photo and biographical article about Grant Rosenzweig, "one of Kansas City's great attorneys," born in Pennsylvania in 1865 and coming here in 1887 with residence at the "northwest corner of 38th and Gillham...

Photo and biographical article about Randolph Preston Rogers, an attorney "with the law firm of Warner, Dean, McLeod and Langworthy." Born in Arkansas in 1884 and coming to Kansas City in 1909 as a lawyer....

Photo and biographical article about Wallace Robinson, "owner and operator of "the Orville Apartments in Kansas City" and the Westgate Hotel at 9th and Main Streets. Born in Canada in 1866 and coming "to...

Photo and bio of Ralph LeRoy Nafziger, or Ralph Nafziger, founder of the Nafziger Baking Company. Born in Kansas City in 1887 and starting his bakery in "the basement of the Christian Church at [6th Street]...

Chapter of the book about the influence of Reverend Charles Ferguson, "pastor of a small suburban church in Kansas City's outskirts" in the sale of the author's Independent magazine in 1908 to Clara Kellogg...

Photo and obituary for Reverend William Dalton, dying on February 21, 1927, at the age of 79, and buried at Mount Saint Mary's Cemetery, a former minister and founder in 1872 of "the Church of Annunciation...

Article about the completion of the Kansas City Speedway, with plans for opening on July 15, 1916, and a star-studded race on July 22, including "Earl Cooper, 1915 road champion of the world and Eddie...

Photo and bio of Howard Vrooman, "owner and proprietor of the St. Regis, Kansas City's newest and most exclusive half million dollar family hotel, located at the Paseo and Linwood" Boulevards. Vrooman...